I was a producer on The Jerry Springer Show and worked as the married presenter's backstage pimp - here's why new Netflix documentary about him doesn't tell the full story
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For years it dominated daytime TV across the United States, oblivious to the cloud of controversy and criticism that followed in its turbulent wake. Tackling far-reaching and unpalatable themes including incest, rape, white supremacism and adultery, The Jerry Springer Show turned car crash TV into an art-form during its astonishing 26-year run.
![[But former producer Norm Lubow (pictured) claims a new Netflix documentary about the controversial show doesn't tell the while truth about Springer's association with his guests]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/12/94430205-14316839-But_former_producer-a-10_1737633848046.jpg)
Some seven years after its final episode, new Netflix documentary Fights, Camera, Action spotlights the show's beleaguered former producers and their increasingly desperate attempts to raise the bar, lower the tone - and boost ratings. But a former employer on the show, primarily filmed at NBC Tower in Chicago before relocating to Stamford Media Center in Connecticut, insists the tell-all three-part exposé only reveals a fraction of the truth.
![[Some seven years after its final episode, new Netflix documentary Fights, Camera, Action spotlights the show's beleaguered former producers and their increasingly desperate attempts to raise the bar, lower the tone - and boost ratings]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/11/94430015-14316839-image-a-2_1737633208678.jpg)
Speaking to The Sun, one-time producer Norm Lubow claims he would regularly book strippers, prostitutes and adult film actresses to appear as fake guests on the show - and provide backstage favours for its titular host. 'When we were first hired Jerry came out to meet us in LA and picked us up in a limo. The first thing Jerry said to us was, "I want to get laid, where are the hookers?"' he alleged.
![[Astonishingly, Lubow - a former singer with heavy metal band Just Say Yes - found a paying job on the show after making six previous appearances onstage as a guest, including one as weed loving presidential candidate Reverend Bud Green]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/11/94430209-14316839-image-a-6_1737633528978.jpg)
Tackling far-reaching and unpalatable themes including incest, rape, white supremacism and adultery, The Jerry Springer Show turned car crash TV into an art-form during its astonishing 26-year run. But former producer Norm Lubow (pictured) claims a new Netflix documentary about the controversial show doesn't tell the while truth about Springer's association with his guests.
![[In an earlier show, Lubow presented himself as a modern day 'Robin Hood' who took advantage of the catastrophic Los Angeles riots by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/23/11/94430203-14316839-image-a-5_1737633525505.jpg)
